The Loyal Publication Society: 12 volumes (vols. 7, 8, 10, 14, 15, 16, 24, 27, 37, 38, 43, 70)

M. Edouard Laboulaye; Francis Lieber; Jason Mason Williams; Charles King

Loyal Publication Society, 1863.

12 issues of the Loyal Publication Society.  Most in publisher's wraps. Nos. 7, 24, and 37 lacking wraps. The Loyal Publication Society of New York was established 1863 after a series of Union defeats in the Civil War.  The intent of the Society was to disseminate pro-Union articles and bolster the Union cause in the North.  Many of the members included the literary and financial elite of New York.  The publications were sent to Union soldiers and to Northern newspapers. 

See: Smith, George Winston. "Broadsides for Freedom: Civil War Propaganda in New England." The New England Quarterly, Vol. 21, No. 3. (Sep., 1948), pp. 291–312. 

"One of the most valuable union organizations in this City is the Loyal Publication Society, of which Dr. FRANCIS LIEBER is President, and JOHN AUSTIN STEVENS, JR., Secretary. Without having any other political character than such as attaches to loyalty, this Society is doing an excellent work in the publication of tracts, essays and addresses calculated to arouse devotion to the country, loyalty to the Government, and determined resistance to the enemies of the Union and of human rights. Its list of publications, including several in German and French, number above fifty pamphlets and tracts, written by the ablest statesmen and scholars. These may be obtained at cost price, on application to the Society, at No. 833 Broadway, where information in regard to the objects and working of the institution will be readily given. The Loyal Publication Society deserves the support of every patriotic citizen who appreciates the importance of enlightening public sentiment as to the real objects of the war and the duties of a true loyalty." - The New York Times, September 24, 1864.

Titles of issues are: Contents: No. 7: Character and Results of the War. How to Prosecute and how to End it.; No. 8: Separation: War without End; No. 10: A Few Words in Behalf of the Loyal Women of the United States; No. 14: The Preservation of the Union. A National Economic Necessity; No. 15: Elements of Discord in Secessia, etc, etc.; No. 16: No Party Now; But All For our Country; No. 24: Patriotism, A Christian Virtue;; No. 27: Nullification and Compromise; A Retrospective View.; No. 37: How the South Rejected Compromise in the Peace Conference of 1864; No. 38: Letters on our National Struggle; No. 43: Antwort der Kerren; No. 70: Letters From Europe Touching the American Contest